The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 86
As he tramped along he suddenly heard a voice saying: ‘Vassili! where are you going?’
Who acts: Mark, voice, Vassili · What happens: tramp, hear, say, go · To what, where: voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mark, voice, Vassili), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 tramped | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tramped | nsubj |
| 3 | tramped | tramp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 going | advcl |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 7 heard | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 7 heard | advmod |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tramped | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 voice | det |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 voice | acl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Vassili | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Vassili | punct |
| 13 | Vassili | Vassili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 going | nsubj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 Vassili | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 going | advmod |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 going | aux |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 going | nsubj |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 going | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tramp | past | Mark | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | Mark | a voice | suddenly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | a voice not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | present · progressive | Vassili | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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